After announcing the arrest of the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) on Friday called social media a “cancer on our society right now” because of the violent imagery it often contains.
The comments come after the governor, in a news conference Friday morning, announced that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson is in custody as the suspected gunman in the shooting.
Cox apparently was referencing the graphic assassination footage that went viral minutes after the conservative campus organizer was murdered as well as the recent images that proliferated in social media of the fatal stabbing of Ukranian refugee Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina.
“We are not wired as human beings — biologically, historically — we have not evolved in
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